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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Date: 07 Aug 1997 13:36:19 -0400
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Adrian Aichner writes:

>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:
Colin> I think packages
Colin> are the right way to go, and if we can show that a
Colin> relatively unsupported system (unlike Gnus and AucTeX) can
Colin> be packaged, that would be excellent.

> I don't understand why you call Gnus a relatively unsupported package.
> There has been a new version of Gnus for each new xemacs beta.

I think my sentence was too convoluted.

To rephrase:

Unline Gnus and AuxTeX, BBDB is relatively unsupported.

> On the other hand bbdb-1.51 has been around for ages now, right?

> Not that it isn't working well :-)

Which is why development has kind of hit a brick wall.

-- 
Colin

